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FARMER BOYS LYRICS
"Till The Cows Come Home" (1997)
1. Prized
2. When Pigs Fly
3. Barnburner
4. Boar
5. Pig Nick
6. Till The Cows Come Home
7. Pain Is Party
8. Sunburnt
9. A Dream Within A Dream
10. Murder Me
11. High To Die
1. Prized
Nominate the sitting hens
While they cling to a screen wire
Watch them picking with their cut-off bills
Crown he fattest, crown the best
Breeding brooder that contest
In the competition that you give
Let's play a losing game
Versus the sickness and versus the pain
Versus the butcher again and again
The winning is rated
The bodies were sized
And the winner is ... prized
Nominate the perfect egg
And observe its innocence
Like the whiteness of a stillborn child
Crown the fattest, crown the best
Laying layer that contest
In the competition that you give
Let's play a losing game
Versus the sickness and versus the pain
Versus the butcher again and again
The winning is rated
The bodies were sized
And the winner is ... prized
Nominated to die
Prized
2. When Pigs Fly
Born into, born into this room as you
I have never left
I grew in my futility, just me
The room is was born into
Is made of cells without a view
An artificial wind that blew
To bring my silent love to you
Her angelic face, her immaculate grace
Are shining through the night
Like the stars in space and the moon in the sky
But loving you is like when pigs fly
I still know, I'll see you when we stand in rows
Ready for the walk
And so I will start to move and go
With you my darling hand in hand
We'll stumble to loading ramp
A cold September wind will blow
Then I will kiss you, yes I know
Her angelic face, her immaculate grace
Are shining through the night
Like the stars in space and the moon in the sky
But loving you is like when pigs fly
3. Barnburner
I was sick to death
With that long agony
I was permitted to sit
When she bound me
She likes spitting in my face
But I love her so much
She likes spitting in my face
And I tremble at her touch
Cause I'm loving you too much
Cause I'm loving you too much
Cause I'm loving you too much
And I tenderly touch you
But now I float away
To my hideaway
Where you have not been
That you have not seen
Not even in your dreams
She breaks my pride
Can it be right
She burns my barn
She sets it alight
She likes spitting in my face
But I love her so much
She likes spitting in my face
And I tremble at her touch
Cause I'm loving you too much
Cause I'm loving you too much
Cause I'm loving you too much
And I tenderly touch you
But now I float away
To my hideaway
I was sick to death
With that long agony
I was permittet to sit
When she unbound me
4. Boar
All animals are equal
Equal to the sky
Equal to the ocean
Equal when they die
There's a pig down in the mud
Face the dead man in his blood
Chained up neat roll down the rails
Down to meet you at a place
When they look at you
And you at them
To sing it together again
All animals are equal
Equal to the sky
Equal to the ocean
Equal when they die
I'm the porkling that was grilled
I am the victim that was killed
Me in chains roll down the rails
Down to meet you at a place
While they look at me
And I at them
To sing it together again
All animals are equal
Equal to the sky
Equal to the ocean
Equal when they die
5. Pig Nick
Dine with me
And come a little closer
Have a seat
Be my guest
Now take a guess
What we are having today
Don't think too long
You might be wrong
Why won't you eat with me?
Why won't you?
Pig nick
You ask me
What for I got these big eyes
You ask me
What for I got this big nose
Now take a guess
What for I got this huge mouth
Don't think too long
You might be dead and gone (Well done!)
Why won't you eat with me?
Why won't you?
Pig nick
6. Till The Cows Come Home
You told me to hold on here
To hold on like day old beer
To hold on for your return
May I yearn and burn?
I sit in my rocking chair
And swing like a doctrinaire
On things that won't be so
Up and down
Day by day, all night long,
All the years you have been gone
I hold on here
Till the cows come home
The bitterness inside me
Embraces me totally
And opens me finally
I have been alone
I hold on a rocking chair again
And swing like a doctrinaire again
On things that won't be so
Up and down
Day by day, all night long,
All the years you have been gone
I hold on here
Till the cows come home
Oh god I'm yearning,
I'm always burning
For things that are gone
But now I'm learning
To stop turning around, to hold on
That's not a song about you,
not about me, not about anyone
Maybe an outstanding account to be paid
For all the days, all night long, all the years
I hold on till the cows come home
7. Pain Is Party
The pain I said was old and irregular
The pain you heard was big as a solid brick wall
Pain is formed by the limit of our domain
No we'll try to turn it round
To turn the pain to sound
Pain is party
There's a point in pain, in this falling of ours
I believe in suffering and playing like us
Now we'll try to turn it round
To turn the pain to sound
Pain is party
just a party
8. Sunburnt
Who's the liar
Who claims to know the truth
It's your desire
To see the tings so smooth
Who's the liar
Who claims to know the truth
Here's a warning
For those who need proof
You see the sun is shining bright
To bask in the sun and feel all right
Don't disregard the consequences
I see the sun is burning your skin
While you are sleeping and dreaming of me
Open your eyes and realize
Truth is aching in sunburnt awakening
Who's the liar
Who claims to know the truth
Here's the answer A haunting tune
You see the sun is shining bright
To bask in the sun and feel all right
Don't disregard the consequences
I see the sun is burning your skin
While you are sleeping and dreaming of me
Open your eyes and realize
Truth is aching
In sunburnt awakening
You see the sun is shining bright
You wear sunglasses to save your sight
Ultra protection for your skin
I watch you sprawling in the sand
Forgot my suncream now I'm taned
I open my eyes and realize
It's high time I should decieve me
It's high time I should belive me
Sunburnt
9. A Dream Within A Dream
Take this kiss upon the brow
I'm departing from you know
Thus much let me avow
You outta belong her deem
Let my days have been a dream
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night or a day
I'm pushing on on
It's stuff i can rest on
In a night or a day
We see our seam
Despite a dream within a dream
I stand amid the wall
Ever so of tormented shawl
With a hole within my hand
Had a few it's how they creep
Trough my fingers trough the deep
What I need what I weep
In a night or a day
I'm pushing on on
It's stuff i can rest on
In a night or a day
We see our seam
Despite a dream within a dream
10. Murder Me
Too blind to see
What's going on with me
Too dumb to cry
Too dead to die
Nervously I'm standing there
Too numb to breath the air
Something's wrong, certainly
That I'm aware of:
they'll murder me
I hear a crow is cawing over my head
Some men are talking about my death
Smell of rotten flesh fills up the air
My brothers are killed and hanging there
Too blind to see what's going on with me
Something's wrong, certainly
Too dumb to cry, too dead to die
They're killing me
Oh my mother can you see,
Oh father set me free
I'm missing the times when the pastures were mine
I grazed with my herd in a wonderful time
Hey, white dressed men
with blood on your hands
First see what I see and then murder me
A rumbling sound, a sudden jerk
A murky track, a lowing hurt
I see the end, my years decline
I see the end of the line
The deadly trap: A single snap
A bolt was shot into my neck
It's allright, certainly
The good god sets me free
Oh my mother can you see,
Oh father set me free
I'm missing the times when the pastures were mine
I grazed with my herd in a wonderful time
Hey, white dressed men
with blood on your hands
First see what I see and then murder me
11. High To Die
A thousand miles away
I'm staring through a screen
I see the world with different eyes
A thousand miles away
In a state supreme
I see the world through different skies
Are you saying good bye
Are you ready to fly
Are you coming away
Are you going to stay
High to die
A thousand miles away
I'm staring through a screen
I see the world with different eyes
Are you saying good by
Are you ready to fly
Are you coming away
Are you going to stay
High to die
staring through a screen
in a state supreme
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